Ewan McGregor had already been cast in the lead when the director walked out, so he took the job on himself and brought Philip Roth’s Pulitzer-winning novel to the screen twenty years after it was published. A bomb goes off in a quiet town and destroys both a beautiful home and a model family.
It’s the late 1960s in New Jersey. Seymour Levov, once the greatest athlete his high school ever produced, now runs the glove factory he inherited from his father and lives in the country with Dawn, a former beauty queen. Their daughter Merry has a stammer, and nothing in that house makes her as angry as the war. Then one morning a bomb goes off in town.
San Sebastian Film Festival
Official Selection - International Competition
2016
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